Dear Editor: I drove by Levi Stadium in Santa Clara at dusk the other night just to see its completion. It truly is the most impressive sports stadium in the state of California. The stadium lighting as well as its structure and dimensions are spectacular. I am sure it will dramatically increase the marketability of the 49ers in the NFL.

I remember in 1980 when Georgia Frontiere, then the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, similarly moved the Rams from the Los Angeles Coliseum in Los Angeles County to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County. Thus, for all intents and purposes, taking the Rams out of Los Angeles. Then in 1995 she made her final move as she took the Rams out of Southern California for good and moved them to her home town of St. Louis, Mo. It was there only a few years later that she herself passed away. Which leaves me thinking that where the 49ers will now be playing is so far away from San Francisco that they might as well rename themselves the San Jose 49ers. In the final analysis, it will be San Jose and the cities of the Silicon Valley that are the real winners.

Patrick Field,

Palo Alto

Glimmer of hope

Dear Editor: There is hope for this country. I just saw a glimmer of it on TV. It was Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky. She is the Democrat who is challenging “do nothing Republican” Mitch McConnell for the U.S. Senate. We, the people of America, need to rid our Congress of people like McConnell. He said in 2009 that the most important thing the Republican Party had to do was to limit President Barack Obama to being a one-term president. Well, so much for that Republican idea. After hearing Grimes, I predict she will kick this virus out of the Senate and start a landslide to return this country to a more moderate and bipartisan government.

Bob Jordan,

Redwood City

Chinese hacking

Dear Editor: The brouhaha over Chinese hacking of U.S. corporations for commercial gain exposes us to charges of monumental hypocrisy. Are Americans and our allies supposed to believe that our (NSA) hacking is for the greater good and Chinese hacking is inherently evil? It’s nice to be assured by our government that when we hack, our hearts are pure and we would never hack for commercial gain.

The criminal hacking charge that the United States has filed against specific foreign officials is largely political theater to demonstrate that we are ever vigilant to spying and blunt any criticisms that we are weak on industrial espionage. We have established the ground rules for hacking, namely military hacking is OK but hacking for commercial gain is verboten. There is little chance that the Chinese officials who were named in the indictment will ever see a day in a U.S. court, as no extradition treaty exists between our two countries. Furthermore, because of our profligate spending on military adventures, we are beholden to China for a staggering debt of $1.27 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s statement that “we don’t gather intelligence for the benefit of U.S. companies” defies credulity. Such statements do little to assuage growing anger at NSA activities, such as spying on Petrogas, Brazil’s offshore oil reserves and other trade secrets; Chinese Huawei, the giant Chinese maker of Internet switching equipment; and Pacnet, the Hong Kong-based operator of undersea fiber optic cables.

Tejinder Uberoi,

Los Altos

Dithering Obama

Dear Editor: President Barack Obama, when he ran for election in 2008, promised Americans he was the man to fix the scandalous wait times in the VA hospital system. It is six years later. Now he says he is awaiting an investigation of the problem. How many of our soldiers will die while Mr. Obama dithers?

Scott Abramson,

San Mateo

Criticism vs. hatred

Dear Editor: I resent the idea put forth by Vladimir Kaplan (Letters, May 23) that any or all critics of Israel are really showing a hatred of Jews. This is an unfair slander upon those of us who see no connection between all the great contributions to mankind by those of Jewish origin and Israeli government policy toward the Palestinians. And, some of us critics are Jews.

In closed door talks, Sen. Dianne Feinstein agreed to a major new water policy for California that sells out the Delta and guts Endangered Species Act protections. Sen. Barbara Boxer is fighting the good fight to remove the rider from her comprehensive water infrastructure bill, but it may take a presidential veto.